Heel-machine



(No Model.)

J. A. JOSSELYN. HEEL MACHINE.

No. 417,645. Patented Dec. 17, 1889.

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JOHN A. JOSSELYN, OF BROOKFIELD, MASSACHUSETTS.

HEEL-MACHINE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 417,645, dated December 17, 1889.

Application filed April 27, 1889. Serial No. 308,786. I (No model.)

To all whom it may concern/.-

Be it known that I, JOHN A. JOSSELYN, a citizen of the United States, residing at Brookfield, in the county of WVorcester and State of Massachusetts, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Heel Guides and Holders for Making Pieced Heels of Boots and Shoes; and I do declare the following to be a'full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to the letters of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

My invention relates to an improved device for facilitating the manufacture of pieced heels of boots or shoes, which I term a heel-lift guide and holder.

In the art of shoe-making on a large scale it is necessary to utilize all the material possible, as the price obtained for trade-work is cut down by competition, and waste of the leather used for uppers or soles would entail a serious loss where large amounts are cut up in the manufacture of the foot-gear mentioned.

To render available the small pieces of stock which fall offin cutting out shoes or boots, and particularly. the sole-leather used for the bottoms, it has been found that by cutting these scraps in certain shapes they may be converted into heel material, which,

when properly adjusted and cemented in lifts, one upon the other, there may be formed complete heels, which are excellent substitutes for heels cut out of whole stock.

As there are numerous pieces in a heel when made out of pieced material, it is necessary that a method of manufacture be provided which will render the assembling and cementing together of these pieces easyand quick to perform. Otherwise, the time consumed would be more valuable than the saving effected in utilizing the waste stock.

With the object in view to furnish a simple and inexpensive holder or form to retain the sections of heel-lifts in place and permit a ready building up of a pieced heel, at the same time cementing these pieces solidly together, and also afford means for the quick removal of the finished heel, the device which vention consists in certain features of construction and combinations of parts which will be hereinafter described, and pointed out in the claims.

Referring to the drawings making a part of this specification,Figure l is a perspective View of the device with a heel partly built in position on the bed-plate. Fig. 2 is a top plan view of the heel-lift holder with a heelblank in position. Fig. 3 is a front elevation of the device, showing manner of ejecting a finished heel-blank. Fig. at represents a completed heel-blank.

A is the bed-plate of the device. It consists of a flat metallic plate, preferably cast into form. It is rectangular and of such a size as will be convenient for its uses.

011 the side edges of the bed-plate A the ears A project vertically. These are perforated in the same horizontal plane to lie in axial alignment with each other and thus be adapted to receive the round rod 0, the office of which will now be explained. The rod 0, being loosely inserted in the holes made for its reception in the cars A, is held from lateral displacement when in position by the pins d, which are inserted in transverse perforations made in the body of, the rod near its ends. The heel-guide D is loosely mounted on the rod 0, as shown. Said guide, as its name indicates, is designed to receive the pieced lifts of leather and hold themin place on the bed-plate A while the heel is in process of formation. It consists of a pair of similarly-shaped guide-bars a, that are integrally connected by the breast-plate a, which latter has the lugs e formed on its rear surface, said lugs being perforated in the same axial line to engage the rod 0, as shown. Upon the rod 0, between the lugs e and cars A of the bed-plate A, the adjustable collars b are placed and secured to bear loosely against the lugs of the heel-guide D, the set-screw c affording means .for such an adjustment. The guide pieces or bars a of the guide D are made of proper form to embrace a shaped heel, as shown in Figs. 1 and 3; or they may be made straight and have their inner faces parallel, as shown in Fig. 2. As it is intended to hold blanks of different shapes and produce heels of various thicknesses, in order to render the device available for such purposes several heel-lift guides may be provided that are interchangeable, and may be placed in position upon the bed-plate A by simply removing the red C, which will allow the removal of one sized heel-guide and the substitution of a different one.

To fit the device for use, it is secured upon a table or bench near its front edge by screws inserted at 0 0 the front edge 1) of the bedplate being nearest the operator, while the breast of the l1eel-guide is to the rear of the device.

In operation the pieces of leather that are cut into shape, substantially as shown, by a proper implement are piled near the workman. A lift is formed of properly-shaped pieces and the top surface coated with a water-proof paste or cement. Then a second layer is placed upon the bottom lift in reversed position as regards the meeting edges of the pieces which compose the lift, so that the joints will be brokenthat is to say, they will not be in the same vertical plane, but so disposed that they will cross each other at an angle, as shown in Fig. 2 of the drawings. The operation is continued in the same manner, and when the heel-blank is completed the guide D is elevated, as shown in Fig. 3, and the heel-blank removed by the application of the thumbs and fingers of both hands of the operator, (the drawings show one hand applied,) so that the finished heel-blank may be readily removed from the guide and put into a press to dry.

It will be evident from the foregoing description and the illustrations given that the operation of forming pieced heels of shoes and boots may be rapidly effected by the use of myimproved device, and that heels of any size or form may be built up in it if a proper number of differently-shaped guides are provided.

Slight changes might be made in the form and manner of connecting the bed-plate and guide-bars thereto without departure from the spirit of my invention. Hence I do not desire to limit the construction and connection to the exact form and manner shown; but,

Having fully described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. In a device for forming pieced heelblanks, the combination, wit-h a bed-plate provided with ears, of a rod which is journaled in the heel-forming guide, and a heelforming guide mounted on said rod, substantially as set forth.

2. In a device for forming pieced heelblanks, the combination, with a bed-plate provided with perforated ears, and a journalrod loosely secured in these ears, of a heelforming guide, and two adjustable collars placed on the journal-rod, one 011 each side of the rod, substantially as set forth.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

JOHN A. JOSSELYN.

\Vitnesses:

G120. S. DUELL, J. R. JossELYN. 

